Can I have a composting toilet?
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Q. Since reading The Big Necessity by Rose George, I would love to see London’s Victorian…Your comprehensive guide to making kick-ass asparagus
May 31, 2015, 5:00 am By Alexandra Stafford
We’re serious about keeping farmers market produce on the menu all year long. Alexandra Stafford…Most glaciers in Mount Everest area will disappear
May 30, 2015, 8:23 am By John Vidal
This story was produced by The Guardian as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Most of the…4 crazy facts from a new fashion documentary
May 29, 2015, 8:52 pm By Ana Sofia KnaufWell, it appears my days of “retail therapy” are over — or at least they should be. I checked…Bernie Sanders cares about cockblocking, too
May 29, 2015, 7:59 pm By Eve Andrews
Twenty-one-year-old Bernie Sanders wrote a lengthy piece in the University of Chicago paper,…Why are officials turning off the tap this summer in some of America’s most vulnerable cities?
May 29, 2015, 7:25 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Come April, municipal utilities across the country start cracking down on businesses and homes late…Here’s why we need to politicize disasters
May 29, 2015, 7:23 pm By Tim Kovach
The past week has brought widespread devastation throughout Texas, as torrential rain and tornadoes…California Senate candidate: “We’re all going to die”
May 29, 2015, 6:50 pm By Heather Smith
Have you ever wished there was more talk of climate change in national politics? Have you ever sat…Walrus cam or the Entourage movie? Either way, bunch of dudes on a beach
May 29, 2015, 6:36 pm By Darby Minow SmithThe boys are back in town. Worn out from some serious smashin’, the dudes crash on a beach to…A Republican governor just bucked his party to veto an ag-gag law
May 29, 2015, 3:33 pm By Nathanael Johnson
On Friday, North Carolina’s governor, Pat McCrory, vetoed a bill meant to keep animal-rights…Guess what Lil Mama’s new single “Sausages” is really about
May 29, 2015, 3:04 pm By Liz CoreA common way to talk to kids about uncomfortable topics involves making up an elaborate metaphor…The real sharing economy doesn’t require apps, just kindness
May 29, 2015, 1:56 pm By Sam Bliss
Small town Americans probably laugh at the urban fad called the sharing economy. In depressed rural…Detroit turns the lights back on with a solar experiment
May 29, 2015, 1:47 pm By Heather Smith
When you write about Detroit, you notice that everybody with a stake in it has a particular Detroit…Ben & Jerry’s fights climate change with gross-sounding new flavor
May 28, 2015, 7:32 pm By Eve AndrewsLeave it to Ben & Jerry’s to really put climate change in perspective. You want to talk about…These maps show how rent is too damn high across America
May 28, 2015, 7:11 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Brace yourself: The average American worker needs to earn $19.35 an hour to afford rent for a…What do your mouth and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have in common?
May 28, 2015, 6:47 pm By Ana Sofia KnaufWhat do your teeth and the Great Lakes have in common? They’re both full of microbeads — you…Obama tweets it up on climate change and Arctic drilling
May 28, 2015, 6:25 pm By Nathanael Johnson
President Obama recently joined Twitter (presumably so that racists can speak to him directly from…Soda taxes bubbling up all over
May 28, 2015, 5:40 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Lawmakers around the country have been talking about taxing sugar-sweetened drinks after Berkeley,…Conservationists are putting backpacks on owls — and it is so damn cute
May 28, 2015, 5:14 pm By Liz CoreThe burrowing owl population has been on a steep decline in California for decades. This is sad…Martin O’Malley could try to out-green Bernie Sanders
May 28, 2015, 5:08 pm By Ben Adler
Martin O’Malley is running for president. The former Maryland governor will announce his candidacy…
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